A Mercer County corrections officer has been arrested on charges of sexual assault and was charged with a second assault later that week, according to a recent article on NJ.com. The 44-year-old man was charged in the second case after Trenton police officers responded to a call for assistance placed from a Riverside Avenue location. [ READ MORE ]

On October 4th, the Superior Court of New Jersey’s Appellate Division made the decision to reverse a prior conviction in the case regarding a man’s 2015 drug charges. The court’s reversal of his conviction is based on the defendant’s right to a fair trial. Police officers stopped the man during a routine traffic stop in [ READ MORE ]

Plainfield authorizes are reporting that a 56-year-old man was arrested for stabbing his ex-wife to death on Sunday. The man in question has been charged with murder in the first degree of his ex-wife, a 56-year-old Plainfield resident. Authorities reportedly responded to a welfare check call at 11:30 p.m. at the man’s home on West [ READ MORE ]

A New Jersey man was recently arrested at home on an open warrant. When the police arrived, they found a cocaine and heroin manufacturing operation. Local and state police found heroin, cocaine, prescription drugs, marijuana, and assorted drug manufacturing paraphernalia in his home. They also found a loaded gun, fake documents—including a birth certificate, Social [ READ MORE ]

An Air Force veteran was recently court-martialed for several crimes. The one and only charge that he was found guilty of was being six minutes late to a meeting that he had arranged with his superior officer to go over some concerns that he had about being targeted by other officers. He was late to [ READ MORE ]

In legislation that took effect at the start of 2017, New Jersey seeks to change two important elements of the criminal justice process: the bail process and the speedy trial process, according to a recent article in New Brunswick Today. Both the right to bail and the right to a speedy trial are recognized by [ READ MORE ]

In New Jersey, there are more than 70,000 adults and 13,000 juveniles currently being supervised by probation officers. Probation is a sentencing alternative that basically gives a person convicted of a crime the chance to serve their criminal sentence in the community. Probation is meant to allow a person convicted of a crime to reintegrate [ READ MORE ]

Polygraph tests, popularly known as “lie detector” tests, cannot be used as evidence to prove that someone committed a crime. In New Jersey, however, they can be used to test whether or not a paroled sex offender has been violating the terms of their release. The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled recently that the state [ READ MORE ]

A state legislator states that prosecutors should be required to initially disclose more evidence when requesting that a judge imprison individuals who are accused of crimes. There is a disagreement before New Jersey’s Supreme Court on the hearings where judges will determine whether to order defendants jailed while they wait for their case to go [ READ MORE ]

A former Linden, New Jersey police officer has turned down a plea deal in reference to allegations that he was driving while intoxicated, and made a wrong turn, crashing head-on into a truck. The collision cost the lives of an off-duty officer, and another man, and caused two other off-duty patrolmen to suffer severe injuries. [ READ MORE ]

A Freehold NJ man is on his way to prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated manslaughter. The suspect, a 27-year-old resident of Freehold, reportedly admitted to killing his girlfriend at their shared residence in May 2014. The suspect committed the homicide at the couple’s third-floor apartment on Hudson Street in Freehold Borough, [ READ MORE ]

Ocean Township police recently captured two suspects in a violent armed robbery on a local street. However, two other suspects in the robbery are still at large, with detectives trying to determine their whereabouts. The suspects allegedly committed the theft offense around 3:00 a.m. on the 1400 block of Maple Avenue in Ocean Township, New [ READ MORE ]

Wall Township police captured a man suspect of robbing a local gas station. The arrest was made after the suspect allegedly led police on a dangerous car chase. According to authorities, the suspect drove his car to the Exxon gas station located along Route 34 in Wall Township, New Jersey. The suspect reportedly stopped his [ READ MORE ]